Articles by Tom Krazit

HPE will acquire Seattle’s Cray for $1.3 billion in merger of storied tech brands

by Tom Krazit on May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 at 11:51 am

HPE is doubling down on the supercomputing game, announcing plans Friday to acquire Seattle’s Cray for $1.3 billion in a deal that links two iconic brands in computing history. The… Read More

Kenichiro Yoshida, President and CEO, Sony Corporation (left), and Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft

Microsoft and Sony vow to “explore” ways to collaborate on cloud gaming and AI in new partnership

by Tom Krazit on May 16, 2019May 16, 2019 at 1:33 pm

Microsoft and Sony are going exploring. The two longtime gaming console rivals announced Thursday that they have struck a multiyear partnership that involves plans to think about doing stuff together,… Read More

Apptio buys Portland’s Cloudability, adding more cloud financial analysis tools to its belt

by Tom Krazit on May 16, 2019May 16, 2019 at 11:43 am

Apptio has made its first acquisition since its $1.9 billion private equity deal closed in January, snapping up Portland’s Cloudability, which also helps companies track their spending on cloud services,… Read More

DevOps is changing the way companies build software. Learn more from five experts at the GeekWire Cloud Summit

by Tom Krazit on May 15, 2019May 15, 2019 at 10:50 am

As software-as-a-service became the dominant vector for enterprise computing during the last several years, the development velocity required from top-tier software teams skyrocketed. DevOps has been one of the key… Read More

Start the patching: New batch of side-channel vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors

by Tom Krazit on May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 at 1:17 pm

Intel announced Tuesday that it has discovered a new batch of vulnerabilities exploiting design flaws in its chips and released software patches that could impact storage-related workloads in data centers.… Read More

Diego Oppenheimer, CEO of Algorithmia, speaking at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. (Photo: Kevin Lisota)

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Seattle startup Algorithmia raises $25M to help companies implement machine learning algorithms

by Tom Krazit on May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 at 10:09 am

Algorithmia announced Tuesday that it has raised $25 million in new funding to build out tools that make machine learning easier to implement. Norwest Venture Partners led the Series B… Read More

Microsoft unveils decentralized identity protocol that works atop the Bitcoin blockchain

by Tom Krazit on May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 at 10:41 am

Microsoft introduced a new open-source protocol Monday that is designed to hurdle performance issues when trying to use blockchain networks to verify identity at scale. ION, or Identify Overlay Network,… Read More

GitHub adds Package Registry, which allows GitHub users to publish software packages alongside source code

by Tom Krazit on May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 at 2:04 pm

GitHub is expanding the scope of its code repository to include support for publishing software packages, the company annoucned Friday afternoon. After teasing an announcement all week on Twitter, GitHub… Read More

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Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO, former Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden taking over

by Tom Krazit on May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 at 10:27 am

Docker CEO Steve Singh is stepping down after just two years on the job, with the mission of transforming the container darling into a revenue-generating enterprise vendor still in progress.… Read More

Azure Red Hat OpenShift, a Kubernetes service jointly managed by Microsoft and Red Hat, is now available

by Tom Krazit on May 7, 2019May 7, 2019 at 1:40 pm

Companies interested in using Kubernetes to help manage their containerized applications have a new option from Microsoft and Red Hat that should ease them into the notoriously complex world of… Read More

Microsoft may be all-in on cloud computing, but Azure reliability is lagging the competition

by Tom Krazit on May 7, 2019May 7, 2019 at 10:58 am

In an increasingly competitive market for cloud computing, reliability matters, and Microsoft has some work to do. Data compiled by Gartner and Krystallize Technologies shows a noticeable gap between Microsoft… Read More

Together at last: Microsoft will ship a Linux kernel with Windows

by Tom Krazit on May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 at 3:02 pm

There are countless things about the state of technology in 2019 that would startle a visitor from 2009, but this is up there: Microsoft will include a custom-built Linux kernel… Read More

Microsoft rolls out new performance-scaling features for Azure databases, including serverless Azure SQL

by Tom Krazit on May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 at 1:20 pm

Cloud customers are getting used to the idea of paying only for what they use while enjoying on-demand performance scaling from their cloud services, and Microsoft added those capabilities to… Read More

GeekWire Cloud Summit: Early-bird pricing ends Tuesday, new speakers added to our biggest technical conference

by Tom Krazit on May 6, 2019May 14, 2019 at 3:40 pm

The 2019 GeekWire Cloud Summit is a fantastic opportunity to learn from industry leaders and technical experts shaping the future of cloud computing, and it’s also a great value. Early-bird… Read More

GitHub cozies up to Azure Active Directory, Visual Studio in series of new updates from Microsoft

by Tom Krazit on May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 at 3:04 pm

Nearly a year after Microsoft made one of the biggest outlays in its history to acquire the open-source code repository GitHub, it plans to integrate that near-ubiquitous coding tool with… Read More

Microsoft will open-source parts of Q#, the programming language behind its quantum computing strategy

by Tom Krazit on May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 at 7:29 am

Much has been made of Microsoft’s reinvention as an open-source company, and it will continue to live up to that billing Monday at Microsoft Build as the world prepares for… Read More

Microsoft and Red Hat unveil open-source project that automatically scales Kubernetes clusters in response to events

by Tom Krazit on May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 at 7:50 am

Microsoft continues to look for ways to help companies that are investing in application containers take advantage of the principles of serverless computing, introducing a new open-source project Monday at… Read More

Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie: If Amazon Web Services is the Yankees, we’re the Red Sox

by Tom Krazit on May 3, 2019May 3, 2019 at 10:23 am

As Microsoft began to realize its entire cloud service was offline Thursday, executive vice president Scott Guthrie was comparing his Cloud and AI Group to the Boston Red Sox. Guthrie… Read More

Microsoft Azure recovering from major networking-related outage that took out Office 365, Xbox Live, and other services

by Tom Krazit on May 2, 2019May 2, 2019 at 5:18 pm

An outage that lasted more than an hour took out a host of Microsoft cloud services Thursday afternoon, as networking connectivity errors in Microsoft Azure also took out third-party apps… Read More

Microsoft unveils a new edge computing database and managed blockchain service ahead of Build

by Tom Krazit on May 2, 2019May 3, 2019 at 10:45 am

The main event doesn’t kick off until next Monday morning in downtown Seattle, but Microsoft plans to announce a new database and blockchain service Thursday while getting ready for Microsoft… Read More

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Does Google really run the most reliable cloud service? Even its own sources are skeptical

by Tom Krazit on May 2, 2019May 2, 2019 at 10:27 am

The slide whizzed by during a Google Cloud Next keynote address last month in San Francisco, perhaps a little too quickly for the more than 30,000 in attendance to process… Read More

Puppet updates its flagship product with increased support for Bolt, an open-source task automator

by Tom Krazit on May 2, 2019May 2, 2019 at 8:36 am

Puppet’s latest edition of its flagship infrastructure automation software includes additional support for Bolt, an open-source project that the company believes makes it easier for customers to move into the… Read More

Leader of Amazon Web Services’ key S3 storage service added to GeekWire Cloud Summit agenda

by Tom Krazit on May 1, 2019May 14, 2019 at 3:43 pm

The agenda for the main stage at the 2019 GeekWire Cloud Summit is set, and we’re thrilled to welcome one of Amazon Web Services’ most important technical leaders to the… Read More

Snowflake Computing CEO Bob Muglia is out, replaced by former ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman

by Tom Krazit on May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 at 10:42 am

Longtime Microsoft executive Bob Muglia, who oversaw five years of strong growth and enormous fundraising at data warehousing startup Snowflake Computing, is out as CEO, the company announced Wednesday. Muglia… Read More

‘Prolific’ firm Tiger Global leads $50M round in Seattle spa and salon software startup Zenoti

by Tom Krazit on May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 at 10:27 am

Zenoti plans to announce Wednesday that it has raised $50 million in new Series C funding round led by Tiger Global Management, which should provide quite a boost for its… Read More

Former Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene and longtime Google CEO Eric Schmidt leaving Alphabet’s board of directors

by Tom Krazit on April 30, 2019April 30, 2019 at 2:12 pm

Two long-serving members of Alphabet’s board of directors who also played prominent roles as executives at the company plan to leave its board in June, Alphabet announced Tuesday. The board… Read More

Docker’s quest for big-company revenue continues with Docker Enterprise 3.0, which comes with a fully-managed Docker platform service

by Tom Krazit on April 30, 2019April 29, 2019 at 5:46 pm

Docker hopes that Docker Enterprise 3.0, which it plans to unveil later on Tuesday at DockerCon, will convince companies looking for help while getting on board with containers to spend… Read More

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DevOps is changing the way companies build software. Learn more from five experts at the GeekWire Cloud Summit

Start the patching: New batch of side-channel vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors

Seattle startup Algorithmia raises $25M to help companies implement machine learning algorithms

Microsoft unveils decentralized identity protocol that works atop the Bitcoin blockchain

GitHub adds Package Registry, which allows GitHub users to publish software packages alongside source code

Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO, former Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden taking over

Azure Red Hat OpenShift, a Kubernetes service jointly managed by Microsoft and Red Hat, is now available

Microsoft may be all-in on cloud computing, but Azure reliability is lagging the competition

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Microsoft will open-source parts of Q#, the programming language behind its quantum computing strategy

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